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Nous sommes les Patenteux

So a couple of weeks ago someone I know alerted me to the fact that our song “Sleepwalking” was played on the Radio-Canadaprogram “C’est bien meilleur le matin“. This is essentially the equivalent to Daybreak on Montreal’s CBC Radio 1.

It turns out one of the hosts, Philippe Marcoux, read last month’s article in the Montreal Gazette, sought us out, and liked our music. Go figure.

Among the highlights of the conversation about us on the program was what is now the official translation of “The Jimmyriggers”. En français, nous sommes les Patenteux!

Well, not really. We’ll still go by the english name. But at least now we have a way of describing in french what exactly a Jimmyrigger is.

You can listen to the whole thing here (fast forward to the 22-minue mark):